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Mary Jane Tritle
May 14, 2013
Mary Jane Tritle, 87, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born April 30, 1926 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late John L. and Mary J. Walterick Hanes. Mrs. Tritle was a 1944 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and was employed early in her life...
Helen Bishop
May 12, 2013
Helen E. Bishop, age 83, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at the Golden Living Center in Gettysburg, PA. Born February 15, 1930 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Harry and Margaret Chronister Ankerbrand. Mrs. Bishop was a 1948 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She was a lifetime member of the...
Donald Stahl
May 11, 2013
Donald E. Stahl, age 73, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Saturday, May 11, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 25, 1939 in Mercersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Jacob Howard and Ruth Gehr Stahl. Don attended school in the Greencastle-Antrim School District. He worked at the Norlo Farm, which is now the Norlo Park for...
Stuart Long
May 10, 2013
Stuart Lemont Long, 49, of Fannettsburg, PA passed away on Friday May 10, 2013. Born on July 22, 1963 in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of Wilbur L. and Rosalie A. (Hockenberry) Long of Fannettsburg. Stuart was a 1983 graduate of the Fannett-Metal High School. He attended the Apostolic Faith Church in Chambersburg. In addition to his parents he...
Jacoba den Hartog
May 10, 2013
Jacoba “Coby” W. den Hartog, 75, of Fayetteville, PA, died unexpectedly on Friday, May 10, 2013 at her home. Born in Zetten, The Netherlands, she was a daughter of the late Gerard and Bertha VanLaar Hofman. Following graduation from nursing school she worked as a registered nurse in Arnhem, Holland. She married Johannis “John” den Hartog on April 11, 1963...
Jacqueline Stewart
May 9, 2013
Jacqueline M. Stewart, 86, a resident at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Chambersburg, PA, died Thursday evening, May 9, 2013 at the nursing home. Born April 10, 1927 in Metz, France, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Martha Wagner Gelas. She was employed as Public Relations Coordinator at Chambersburg Hospital for more than thirty years. Mrs....
Alfred Spoonhour
May 9, 2013
Alfred Spoonhour, 88, of Fayetteville, PA, died Thursday morning, May 9, 2013 at his home. Born March 17, 1925 in Fayetteville, he was a son of the late Charles H. and Mary J. Brown Spoonhour. A US Navy veteran of WWII, he retired from Mt. Cydonia Sand Company in Fayetteville. Alfred was a member of the Greater Good News Church...
John Gearity
May 8, 2013
John E. “Jack” Gearity, of Fayetteville, PA, died peacefully at his home on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Jack was born in Beaverdale, PA on January 4, 1938. He was lovingly raised by his grandparents, Edward and Elizabeth Gearity, a truly remarkable couple. He attended school at Beaverdale, The Franciscan Preparatory School, and St. Francis College. In addition, he also studied...
Evelyn Lydic
May 8, 2013
Evelyn Mae Stepler Lydic, 87, of Chambersburg, died Wednesday May 8, 2013 at Manor Care Health Services. Born on April 29, 1926 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Charles C. and Verna E. Stepler. A 1944 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School, Evelyn spent her working years as a maintenance specialist, retiring from Letterkenny Army Depot...
Gary Cox
May 8, 2013
Gary D. Cox, age 66, of Fayetteville, PA passed away at Chambersburg Hospital on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Born April 23, 1947 in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Francis J. Cox and Agnes V. Shatzer. A 1965 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Gary served in the US Army Reserves during the Vietnam Conflict. He...
Ellen Campbell
May 7, 2013
Ellen Houser Campbell, born in Milroy, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1923, died Tuesday evening, May 7, 2013. Her husband, Robert Bruce Campbell, preceded her in death on March 3, 2012. Ellen is survived by her daughter Lisa Ellen Aston (Mrs. Randall) of Georgetown, Texas, and a sister, Marguerite Jacobs of Shippensburg, PA. Preceeding her in death, in addition...
Noah Burkholder
May 5, 2013
Noah A. Burkholder, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday, May 5, 2013 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 18, 1921 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Abram I. and Carrie Hostetter Burkholder. Early in his life, Mr. Burkholder was employed at the former Walker Brothers Feed in Chambersburg. He married his wife, Bertha Flohr Burkholder on...
David Tipton
May 5, 2013
David Russell Tipton, age 44, of Scotland, PA passed away on Sunday, May 5, 2013. Born in Nuremburg, Germany on March 7, 1969, he was the son of Johnny C. and Rosie Johnson Tipton. A 1987 graduate of Waynesboro Area Senior High School, Dave went on to serve honorably in the U.S. Army and the Army National Guard. He worked...
James Faubel
May 4, 2013
James E. “Jim” Faubel, age 90, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Saturday, May 04, 2013 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born September 28, 1922 in Clay Hill, PA, he was the son of the late Harry E. and Catherine Fulton Faubel, Sr. A U.S. Army veteran, Jim served honorably during WWII, in the infantry as an...
Arlene Pearl
May 3, 2013
Arlene B. D. Pearl, age 85, formerly of Chambersburg, PA passed away on May 3, 2013 at Long Term Care in McConnellsburg, PA. Born March 4, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Alma Wilds and step daughter of the late Paul Wilds. Mrs. Pearl worked at the Former Franklin County Nursing home for 20 years, retiring in 1988....
Catherine Kurtz
May 2, 2013
Catherine V. Kurtz, age 92, of Peachtree Corners, GA and formerly of Chambersburg, PA, passed away in the Gwinnett Medical Center, Duluth, GA on May 2, 2013. Born May 15, 1920 in Guilford Springs, PA, she was the daughter of the late Charles F. and Mary Elizabeth Sellers Sleighter. Mrs. Kurtz worked in the General Supply Storage Division of Letterkenny...
Floyd Sollenberger
May 2, 2013
Floyd W. Sollenberger of Chambersburg, PA passed away at Quincy Village on May 2, 2013. He was born May 18, 1918 in Hamilton Township to the late Albert and Hazel Hartman Sollenberger. He attended Mary B. Sharpe Elementary School and graduated from Chambersburg High School in 1938. In 1941, he married his sweetheart, Mary Josephine Wampler, who preceded him in...
Chester Quick
May 1, 2013
Chester Benjamin Quick, 83, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at his home. Born December 30, 1929 in Shandaken, NY, he was the son of the late Chester and Mary Labunoyn Quick. His wife, Hazel Newman Quick, preceded him in death on November 11, 2011. A US Army veteran, Chester served honorably during the Korean Conflict....
Byron Ashburn
May 1, 2013
Byron George Ashburn, age 87 of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at Quincy Village. Born March 4, 1926 in Altoona, PA, he was the son of the late Samuel George and Mildred Elizabeth Brubaker Ashburn. A 1944 graduate of Altoona High School, Mr. Ashburn went on to serve honorably in the US Navy during WWII from...
Kay Lininger
May 1, 2013
Kay Arlene Lininger, 72, of Greencastle, PA, passed away Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, MD. Born April 7, 1941 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Theodore and Beulah Strait Brant. Kay was currently employed at First Data in Hagerstown, MD and had previously worked at Grove Worldwide in Shady Grove, PA. One...
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